User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Getting into the details
- Setting up your system
- VST Connections
- The Project window
- Working with projects
- Creating new projects
- Opening projects
- Closing projects
- Saving projects
- The Archive and Backup functions
- The Project Setup dialog
- Zoom and view options
- Audio handling
- Auditioning audio parts and events
- Scrubbing audio
- Editing parts and events
- Range editing
- Region operations
- The Edit History dialog
- The Preferences dialog
- Working with tracks and lanes
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Introduction
- Quantizing Audio Event Starts
- AudioWarp Quantize (Cubase Only)
- Quantizing MIDI Event Starts
- Quantizing MIDI Event Lengths
- Quantizing MIDI Event Ends
- Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- AudioWarp Quantizing Multiple Audio Tracks (Cubase Only)
- The Quantize Panel
- Additional Quantizing Functions
- Fades, crossfades, and envelopes
- The arranger track
- The transpose functions
- Using markers
- The MixConsole
- Overview
- Configuring the MixConsole
- Keyboard Navigation in the MixConsole
- Working with the Fader Section
- Working with the Channel Racks
- Linking Channels (Cubase only)
- Metering (Cubase only)
- Using Channel Settings
- Saving and Loading Selected Channel Settings
- Resetting MixConsole Channels
- Adding Pictures
- Adding Notes
- The Control Room (Cubase only)
- Audio effects
- VST instruments and instrument tracks
- Surround sound (Cubase only)
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Introduction
- Working with the MediaBay
- The Define Locations section
- The Locations section
- The Results list
- Previewing files
- The Filters section
- The Attribute Inspector
- The Loop Browser, Sound Browser, and Mini Browser windows
- Preferences
- Key commands
- Working with MediaBay-related windows
- Working with Volume databases
- Working with track presets
- Track Quick Controls
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor – Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The In-Place Editor
- The Drum Editor – Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- The List Editor – Overview
- List Editor operations
- Working with SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The basic Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
- Working with the Chord Functions
- Introduction
- The Chord Track
- The Chord Track Inspector Section
- The Chord Editor
- The Chord Assistant (Cubase only)
- Creating a Chord Progression from Scratch (Chords to MIDI)
- Extracting Chords from MIDI (Make Chords)
- Controlling MIDI or Audio Playback with the Chord Track (Follow Chords)
- Assigning Chord Events to MIDI Effects or VST Instruments
- Expression maps (Cubase only)
- Note Expression
- The Logical Editor, Transformer, and Input Transformer
- The Project Logical Editor (Cubase only)
- Editing tempo and signature
- The Project Browser (Cubase only)
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Part II: Score layout and printing (Cubase only)
- How the Score Editor works
- The basics
- About this chapter
- Preparations
- Opening the Score Editor
- The project cursor
- Playing back and recording
- Page Mode
- Changing the zoom factor
- The active staff
- Making page setup settings
- Designing your work space
- About the Score Editor context menus
- About dialogs in the Score Editor
- Setting clef, key, and time signature
- Transposing instruments
- Printing from the Score Editor
- Exporting pages as image files
- Working order
- Force update
- Transcribing MIDI recordings
- Entering and editing notes
- About this chapter
- Score settings
- Note values and positions
- Adding and editing notes
- Selecting notes
- Moving notes
- Duplicating notes
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Editing pitches of individual notes
- Changing the length of notes
- Splitting a note in two
- Working with the Display Quantize tool
- Split (piano) staves
- Strategies: Multiple staves
- Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures
- Deleting notes
- Staff settings
- Polyphonic voicing
- About this chapter
- Background: Polyphonic voicing
- Setting up the voices
- Strategies: How many voices do I need?
- Entering notes into voices
- Checking which voice a note belongs to
- Moving notes between voices
- Handling rests
- Voices and Display Quantize
- Creating crossed voicings
- Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves
- Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices
- Additional note and rest formatting
- Working with symbols
- Working with chords
- Working with text
- Working with layouts
- Working with MusicXML
- Designing your score: additional techniques
- About this chapter
- Layout settings
- Staff size
- Hiding/showing objects
- Coloring notes
- Multiple rests
- Editing existing bar lines
- Creating upbeats
- Setting the number of bars across the page
- Moving bar lines
- Dragging staves
- Adding brackets and braces
- Displaying the Chord Symbols from the Chord Track
- Auto Layout
- Reset Layout
- Breaking bar lines
- Scoring for drums
- Creating tablature
- The score and MIDI playback
- Tips and Tricks
- Index
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Index
S
Scale events
About 544
Adding 545
Assistant 545
Auditioning 545
Automatic scales 545
Changing 545
Follow Chord Track 546
Showing 544
Scale standards
Meters 203
Score 776, 874
Adding notes 756
Bows 795
Composite signatures 739
Creating chord symbols 842
Deleting notes 770
Display markers 861
Displaying 533
Ending symbols 837
Explode function 751, 784
Extended toolbar 735
Force screen redraw 746
Gluing notes 765
Grouping signatures 798
Hiding stems 795
Lay text 852
Layers 811
Layout layer symbols 812
Lock (L) button 761
Locking layers 825
Merging staves 788
No Flag/Beam 795
No Overlap 776
Note info dialog 792
Notes to MIDI 752
Offsetting bar numbers 857
Page number indicator 732
Page setup 734
Page text 852
Repeating note groups 799
Repeating symbols 835
Selecting note values 754
Setting the number of bars 873
Split staves 534
Staff modes 534
Staff spacing 895
Stem length 792
Sys text 852
Score Drum Map
About 883
Initializing 884
Setting Up 884
Score Editor
Adding image files 823
Box symbol 836
Context menus 737
Edit mode 732
Filter bar 735
Find/Replace 855
MIDI Input function 764
Mouse position 755
Page Mode 731
Score settings
About 753
Switching staves 753
Values for note input 754
Score symbols
Adding 817
Adding to notes 816
Aligning 832
Creating 838
Deleting 831
Duplicating 826
Guitar chords 821
In palettes 814
Length 830
Moving 826
Moving with keyboard 828
Note layer symbols 811
Note-dependent 811
Relation to staves/voices 815
Resizing 830
Selecting 825
Scrolling 732
Scrubbing
Events in Project window 70
Events in Sample Editor 334
Project 105
Segments
Changing note start/end
point 356
Cutting segments 357
Deleting 358
Gluing 357
Moving horizontally 358
Saving the segmentation 358
VariAudio 356
Select Track for Auditioning 542
Selecting
Events in Project window 70
MIDI notes 494
MIDI notes in score 759
Send effects (Audio) 235
Sends
Disabling 238
MixConsole 199
Set Note Info dialog 795
Set up Window Layout
MixConsole 178
Setup pane 221
Shared copies 74
Show Scales 544
Shuffle 776
Side-Chain
Drag & drop 242
Inserts rack 195
Using 240
Signal levels 116
Silence 311
Sine mode
Automation 283
MIDI editing 506
Single Voice
Follow Chord Track 546
Slices
About 347
Creating 350
Slurs
Adding 817
Bezier slurs 819
Direction 831
Inserting 818
Shape 831
Snap
MIDI editors 490
Project window 52
Sample Editor 327
Zero crossings 54
Zero crossings (Sample
Editor) 327
Snap modes 761
Snap point
Setting for clips in Pool 386
Setting in Project window 52
Setting in Sample Editor 334
Snap to Zero Crossing
Audio Part Editor 375
Snap types 52
Solo
Audio Part Editor 373
Folder tracks 98
MIDI editors 489
MixConsole 187
Surround channels 271
Tracks 79
Solo Defeat
MixConsole 188
Sound sources
Position in surround field 270
Speaker icon
MIDI editors 490
Score Editor 761
Speaker tool
Audio Part Editor 373
Project window 69
Sample Editor 333
Speakers section 220
Spectacle bass 798
Spectrum Analyzer 319
Split tool 874
Splitting
By ranges 83
Events 75
Staves 766
Square mode
Automation 283
MIDI editing 506
Staff settings
About 748
Score display 533
Switching staves 772
System sizes 778
Start voicing 547
Static value line (automation) 279
Statistics 321